Two surnames define a generation of British crime drama: Barnaby and Bergerac — and both belong to the same actor. John Nettles spent 14 years solving murders as DCI Tom Barnaby in…
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Most of us think about life expectancy the way we think about the weather: a number that happens to other people, until it isn’t. The surprise is how much of that number…
For a generation of viewers, Tom Selleck is the guy who made solving crimes in Hawaii look effortless, mustache and all — yet the facts behind the fame are less tidy than…
Most people remember Kate McKinnon as Saturday Night Live’s fearless Hillary Clinton impressionist, but she has spent her post-SNL years doing something quieter: living in a cabin in the woods. People (celebrity…
Cristin Milioti has a peculiar kind of fame: millions know her as the mysterious Mother from How I Met Your Mother, yet she keeps her own story unusually quiet. The throughline is…
Few British comedians divided audiences quite like Bernard Manning. When he died in June 2007 at the age of 76, according to Wikipedia’s biography of Manning, the argument he had spent half…
Anyone who has searched for a boxing ring after watching a title fight has hit the same small absurdity: the ring is a square, and the rules explain why — the British…
There aren’t many people who go from international runway work to cracking jokes on a BBC comedy about debt — but Michelle De Swarte has made that unlikely leap look natural; in…
When a founding member of a pop-punk trio vanishes from the tour lineup, the questions arrive faster than the answers. That’s where Busted has been since James Bourne stepped off the band’s…
Anyone who has followed Lee Min-ho for more than a decade knows the drill: another drama, another global fan base, another round of questions about his private life — but in August…